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toomuchtodolast Monday at 5:00 AM1 replyview on HN

Lots of archival applications that can use this today at these speeds, assuming you’re staging the data like you would for tape. It’s slow, but permanent from a longevity perspective. You could fit 200PB of the Internet Archive in ~600 of these 5 inch glass discs. Hopefully speeds improve, along with infra to treat the media similar to an automated tape library.


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rbanffylast Monday at 1:44 PM

> You could fit 200PB of the Internet Archive in ~600 of these 5 inch glass discs

It'll only take 900 years to write using a single drive. ;-)

I'll need to be at least as fast (a 100x speedup) and at least as compact as LTO.

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